Because slacking off is a cultural tradition over there.
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Despite numerous past efforts at reform, Italy continues to have a notoriously inefficient public sector in which workers enjoy iron-clad job protection regardless of productivity or performance.
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Italy's ambivalent attitude to public sector shirkers may partly explain the success of a comedy film currently smashing the country's box office records, in which the unlikely hero is a state worker who will go to any lengths to hang on to his generous benefits.
I'm guessing it's this.
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Diogenes of Sinope:
"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC:
"Better dead than smeg."
